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  • 09 Dec

    Changing Form Navigation Group Names Dynamics CRM 2011


    I recently found myself needing to add a left navigation group to a form. Initially I thought this would be no more difficult than adding a tab or section. I was wrong.

    As you can see, there is no such option to simply add a new group to the left navigation. Thankfully there are a few workarounds we can use to get a similar result.

    Changing Form Navigation Group Names Dynamics CRM 2011

    Changing Form Navigation Group Names Dynamics CRM 2011

    While CRM 2011 will not let you create your own groups it does let you rename the existing ones. To do this all you need to do is double click on the group heading, and ...

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  • 08 Nov

    Debugging Tips for CRM 2011


    Anyone that has had any experience coding will tell you that actually writing the code is only half the work. Debugging code can waste a significant amount of a developer’s time, and it can be quite difficult to know where to start and how to go about it. In this blog post I will touch on some of the easier ways to identify bugs, and work to remedy them.

    Below is some code that I have written which is meant to alter the colour of contact fields based on preferred contact methods. I have intentionally added bugs to show how ...

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  • 04 Jun

    Populating Lookup Fields with JavaScript in CRM 4.0


    In a previous blog post I went over how to populate fields in CRM. You may notice in that blog post I did not cover how to populate lookup fields, and this simply was because at the time I didn’t know an effective way to do this. After this problem coped up a few more times I decided it was about time to find a usable solution, so I took to the internet in an attempt to learn some tricks.
    Many of you, like me, may have wondered why simply setting the lookup field to a value and moving off ...

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